Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Study Finds White Liberals Condescend To Blacks

White liberals talk down to black people.

That is
the finding of a study by Cydney H. Dupree, assistant professor of
organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management. Yale Insights summarized the study results: “White Liberals Present
Themselves as Less Competent in Interactions with African-Americans.” The
study found that white Americans who possess progressive
socio-political views tend to use words that make them appear less competent
(i.e. dumber) when they are around minorities. This was not the case with
conservatives.

Dupree
and her co-author, Susan Fiske of Princeton University, said this behavior is
the result of liberals’ desire to connect with other races and is an “effort to
get along.” The study’s authors characterize this tactic as a “competence
downshift” that occurs when people want to appear likeable and friendly. They
added it’s also possible that “this is happening because people are using
common stereotypes in an effort to get along.” Liberals acting on stereotypes? No, can’t be so! Professor
Dupree termed this a “subtle but persistent effect,” noting that, “even if it’s
ultimately well-intentioned, it could be seen as patronizing. You think?!

Dupree
and Fiske discovered that if a black person was called highly intelligent prior
to the interaction with a white liberal, the white liberal was less likely to
“downshift” his or her competence. Pathetic. But not surprising. I’ve witnessed
this discrimination by low expectations for years. The majority of white
liberals, certainly the wealthy ones in large coastal cities, believe they are
superior to both the more conservative rubes in the Heartland and the
minorities they munificently employ as their drivers, gardeners, butlers and
such.

The
researchers also found that Democratic political candidates used fewer
competence-related words in speeches to predominately minority audiences then
they did in speeches to largely white audiences, Yale Insights reported.

Conservatives
generally don’t try to bribe minorities with free shit if they’ll only vote for
them. They don’t promise free cradle-to-grave care. They aren’t interested in
creating dependent livestock who’ll vote for them forever if they are thrown
some food a couple of times a day. They don’t want to be plantation masters
and, unlike Democrats, they never have been.

Is it
really enlightened to treat blacks and other minorities as if they were babies
or puppies? Does this bestow dignity?

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays